Valencian Eye in the Sky
After 12 years work and 70 million euros spent, NASA and the European Space Agency will finally put into orbit the 300 kilo telescope built by a team led by…
La Ferrera
Pinedo beach is not a place where you come across many tourists and it has the disadvantage of being close to the port and having a horizon consisting of cranes…
Valencian Cheese if You Please
In September 1986, brothers Fernando and Juan José Gil Solsona opened the Quesería Plana Alta cheese factory. Their parents had been making cheese for many years, transforming their cows’ milk…
Ca la Mar
They say that the Cabanyal is going to be the new Russafa, just like they said that Russafa was going to be the new Notting Hill; that is if the…
Valencian China Skyline
The Chinese city of Qingdao is planning on Valencianising its skyline with a new complex designed by the Valencian architectural studio Fran Silvestre, who will work with two Chinese firms…
Swiss Heat in Valencia
The Swiss solar energy company Edisun Power, inaugurated a solar farm near Requena in March 2018, bringing sustainable non-polluting power to some 7,000 dwellings in Requena. The farm has two…
It’s Never Too Late
80 year old Valencian Miguel Castillo went to in Verona, Italy in February 2018 not to see the sights, but to complete his degree course on an Erasmus grant. This…
La Vermuteria, Castellón
Never having atended the Magdalena festival in Castellón, we went there one rainy Sunday, and having discovered that the whole city was out marching to and from the mountain from…
London Calling with Bowtie Gin
Legendario Rum, with over a century of history was started in Havana, Cuba in 1946 and its purity remains nowadays intact by being elaborated in its homeland. The company Legendario…
Alpesa’s Sound of Music in Paris
The largest manufacturer of cardboard cores and tubes on the Iberian península is the Valencian company Mandriladora Alpesa, S.L. They have three production plants with the capacity to manufacture over…
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